New battery trick said to "double battery life" from HTC themselves..

[ericmcintire]

Credit goes to "onestepahead" over at xda... here's the exact email he got from HTC. Please read the bold writing..
Originally Posted by htc Dear XXXX XXXXXX,

Dear XXXX, HTC and Sprint are taking steps to improve observed battery life. HTC is developing a number of handset software optimizations that are expected to increase device operating times. These updates are expected to be available as part of software pushes scheduled for later this summer. As with any software development effort, we cannot provide an exact date. Additionally, Sprint is working to optimize 4G network settings to improve battery life for customers in 4G markets. I will be happy to go over various setting with you that will help extend the battery life. Traditionally WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, and display brightness all greatly impact battery performance. With Android 2.1 another feature that can kill your battery are the Live Wallpapers. If you’re using Live Wallpaper just turn if off. Adjust the Brightness of the display (Menu | Settings | Sound & Display | Brightness). By default it is set to auto adjust but you can manually adjust it down. Consider adjusting the display timeout (Menu | Settings | Sound & Display | Screen Timeout). The default value is 1 minute but you can reduce it to as low as 15 sec but 30 seconds. By default your HTC Incredible vibrates every time you press a key. Turn it off by un-checking the box ‘Vibrate when typing’. Menu | Settings | Language & Keyboards | Touch Input | Text Input | Vibrate when typing. If Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Email, App Updates, or many other things are constantly popping notifications, consider turning some of them off as notifications do impact battery performance; This is done in each app. To also help with Battery Life you can do these steps exactly: 1) Turn your device ON and Charge the device for 8 hours or more 2) Unplug the device and Turn the phone OFF and charge for 1 hour 3) Unplug the device Turn ON wait 2 minutes and Turn OFF and charge for another hour Your battery life should almost double, we have tested this on our devices and other agents have seen a major difference as well. HTC has received some reports regarding this issue with the screen seperation, and are currently analyzing the potential causes. Most customers are not reporting any issue related to this problem. The issue appears to be cosmetic and should not affect the operation of the device. Additional information will be provided after we finish our investigation of the issue. If you have any other questions or concerns please Reply back to this email or give us a call at our HTC Technical Support Line, 1-866-449-8358. I want to thank you for contacting HTC. In order to help improve our service I’d like to invite you to take a survey at http://survey.htc.com/worldwide, you can also checkout http://shopamerica.htc.com/homebrands/index.htm for more information. HTC Technical Support http://www.HTC.com http://www.facebook.com/HTC http://www.youtube.com/user/HTC http://www.twitter.com/HTC

can someone try this and confirm?? Sounds similar to another trick but not exactly the same. Hopefully they don't expect us to do this more than once...

[tool2269]

this has been posted before but thanks

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=124820

[amw1972]

thanks for the contribution...but this battery dance has been mentioned.

its so that the device know how to report accurate battery levels.

[ericmcintire]

Originally Posted by tool2269

this has been posted before but thanks

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=124820

I've seen that one, and this one has no mention of the light turning green, this one simply says to leave it charging for an hour regardless of the light's color... might have different results? I understand it seems like the same thing but it couldn't hurt to try.

[QMeli907]

Anyone try this? I would like double the battery life, but it's really not worth me having my phone off for two consecutive hours. That's a lot of missed information

[ericmcintire]

Originally Posted by QMeli907

Anyone try this? I would like double the battery life, but it's really not worth me having my phone off for two consecutive hours. That's a lot of missed information

Exactly.... Also, not worth doing if you have to do it more than once :-/ I've got an external charger coming this week so hopefully I can just use that instead of dealing with these bullshit "tricks" to get my phone working properly.

[NinjaMom]

So, has anyone tried it and does it work.

[xweaponx]

It's too bad that battery technology is 10yrs or so behind current hardware expectations.

If only the capital pumped into oil discovery/collection/refinement/logistics was diverted into portable battery development for (1) day.

We could have the same-size battery but with 7500mA instead of 1500mA...

[kevmo1965]

I'm going to try this tonite. Will report back.

[ericmcintire]

Originally Posted by kevmo1965

I'm going to try this tonite. Will report back.

w00t!!! Let us know! I'm looking forward to results.